October 12th, 2012
Ten years ago it was web sites. Every company needed to have one but too often the primary motivation was “me too”. The fear of being left behind had clouded people’s judgement, and the result was ill-thought out sites, with little or no purpose. At times I wonder if the mobile app is in danger [...]
March 17th, 2011
I’m not a big gamer, I have a Wii and a PlayStation 2 gathering dust somewhere. But even I can sense a shift in the gaming environment. Being (just) the youthful side of 40, I’ve grown up seeing games develop from the stick and square ball of Pong on my Grandstand TV Game 2000 in [...]
October 22nd, 2010
Ok, first things first – I will make a *real* effort to write about nothing even remotely Apple-related next week. Not sure if I’ll manage it… but I’ll try my best. Anyway… after initially announcing it in January and it being dubbed the “iPad killer” by Uncle Fester, sorry Steve Ballmer, the boss at Microsoft, [...]
October 6th, 2010
Do you remember when Google was a search engine? Seems a long time ago doesn’t it. Google Docs. Google Calendar. Gmail. Android. YouTube. Google Chrome. Blogger. Google Earth. Google Maps. Google Streetview. Google… well, you get the idea. It’s all part of the Internet Goliath’s plan to command pretty much everything we do on the [...]
September 28th, 2010
Now this looks familiar. Today Research in Motion (RIM), makers of BlackBerry smartphones, announced something expected for quite some time: their own tablet computer. The only real surprise was the name. Almost everybody in the tech press agreed the device would be called the BlackPad, so the name PlayBook came as something of a surprise. [...]